30 year old neighbor is not shoveling snow

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How do I tell my 30 year old neighbor to shovel his side of the street. He is 30 year old and he is very healthy but wont shovel what can we do?

He is on the other side of the street. Why do you even care???

Clear your side, make sure you can get in out and if you want mail delivery and amazon delivery make sure there is a path to your home and mailbox accessible. Then go inside and relax.

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What if he is handicapped

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Anonymous wrote:What if he is handicapped

Or obese?

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Anonymous wrote:What if he is handicapped

Or obese?

What if he has a legitimate snow-phobia?

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Anonymous wrote:What if he is handicapped

Or obese?

What if he has a legitimate snow-phobia?

Is he unusually sensitive to the cold?

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Anonymous wrote:Come out to Fairfax County. Half of the sidewalks in our neighborhood are never shoveled. I wouldn’t think anything of this. I didn’t know it was the law to shovel a sidewalk anywhere.

It will be in the 50s and rain next week. It will be melted then.

+1. Just don’t worry about it! That happened everywhere! I think I’m the only person on the block that shoveled my sidewalk. The rest of the block to the stop sign has 6 inches of snow untouched.

And, what’s the practical impact?

Do people walk down the sidewalk with any regularity? (Dog walkers don’t count since they could easily walk their dog on their own property.)

There are these people called: children.

And in many communities, they walk to school.

If you live in a community that does not have bus service because you are within range & you do not shovel your sidewalk, you are a bad person.

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Anonymous wrote:30 year old neighbor is not shoveling snow.

How do I tell my 30 year old neighbor to shovel his side of the street. He is 30 year old and he is very healthy but wont shovel what can we do?

Is he hot? Asking for a friend.

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I call and report these people to the county(MoCo).

I'm a runner and my various routes take me anywhere from 3 to 7 miles and after it has snows a few times, you get to know who the deadbeats are - it's always the same people.

I give them 48 hours to get it done and then my criteria are this: if the sidewalks leading to their house and/or their driveways are shoveled but the sidewalk in front or the side of their house is not, they get reported.

Did a 6 mile run today and have a list of 20 or so down county houses - we'll see where things are Tuesday morning.

You want people to clear a path for your hobby or you will call the police? You are an entitled loser.

It's not police, it's code enforcement. They typically give warnings and from what I've seen, people comply; it would only be in extreme cases where someone ignores multiple times where there would be an actual fine.

This is not for me - it's for the elderly, the disabled, the kids walking to school and the people trying to push a stroller. In the warmer months, I also report the people who pull their cars partly into their driveways(usually trying to cram multiple cars) that are then blocking the sidewalk. Again, same reason as above - not for me in particular it's for the good of all pedestrians. On my runs, I get to know who these habitual abusers are and I report them as well.

Good for you! I recall the last time we had significant snow, the non-shoveled parts of the sidewalk became treacherous ice and my daughter had to walk through it to middle school and fell multiple times (wearing proper boots!). It hadn't occurred to us that it would be so bad since my street is generally well shoveled since we are considerate people. After that we had to drive her to school until it melted.

This is in Arlington where it is the code. I'll be more proactive in future about writing down house numbers and reporting them.

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I'm surprised that the DC311 app doesn't allow you to report this (I checked last night).

DC government normally wants you to tattle-tale on everything, but they don't seem to care about this. Also, I haven't seen the parking attendants ticketing in over a week, just prior to the storm. Seems like they don't GAF about parking enforcement if there's snow on the ground.

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My 20-something across the street neighbors shoveled their steps to their house but not the sidewalk. It's an icy mess now. Oh well, that's on them.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in a nice, very expensive part of NW DC.

The houses that have not shoveled are all uniformly:
-Rental houses
-The very expensive flipped houses ($2.5M+) purchased by younger rich couples

Even the older neighbors salted their walks and hired people to shovel (or another neighbor shoveled as a favor).

Why do you care?

Is there truly no longer a sense of doing something because it’s the right thing to do anymore?

Just wear boots and stop demanding that your neighbors shovel snow.

NP. Nut up and take care of your property like an adult.

Your entitlement is showing. We don’t shovel because no sane person would care.

You genuinely have no idea what the definition of “entitlement” is, do you

You have no idea how to walk in the snow, do you?

Haha damn…you’ve just spent like two full days in this thread, haven’t you? Maybe you should get off your lazy ass and spend 20 minutes shoveling your sidewalk instead of 16 hours per day on DCUM.

I shovel snow onto my sidewalk.

My three year old literally did this but she's a terrorist.

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Have a heart and be kind. Help your neighbors and shovel their snow. Take a basket of muffins over and see if they are ok and need anything!

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There are a number of lazy, relatively young, able bodied adults in our neighborhood too. There are tons of teens offering cheap shoveling services so if the adults in question all have “hidden disabilities,” they should hire the teens to shovel for them. If they can’t afford to hire the teens then they shouldn’t have bought a house.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a number of lazy, relatively young, able bodied adults in our neighborhood too. There are tons of teens offering cheap shoveling services so if the adults in question all have “hidden disabilities,” they should hire the teens to shovel for them. If they can’t afford to hire the teens then they shouldn’t have bought a house.

I hate to even imagine what sort of problems a contemporary snow-shoveling teen would use to explain his shoddy workmanship.

“My Gucci hat wouldn’t stay on because of my man-bun, & my head started to get cold, so I stopped.”

“Even my organic wool gloves didn’t provide enough protection for my nail polish, so I knew you wouldn’t mind if I only finished shoveling half your sidewalk.”

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Anonymous wrote:Have a heart and be kind. Help your neighbors and shovel their snow. Take a basket of muffins over and see if they are ok and need anything!

MYOB and leave your neighbors alone if they don’t want to shovel. The snow will usually melt in a few days.